Antonia Antonopoulos

She is happily employed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Headquarters in New York, working with the Division of Communication. After completing her MA in Communication and Culture she has worked with UNICEF in Senegal and the Maldives.

Olukayode Ayankojo

Joseph Bahn

Since graduating from the Communication and Culture program in 2009 he has been working as a museum and cultural resources planning consultant with the global consultancy Lord Cultural Resources. As a museum exhibition planner he’s been lucky enough to work in far-flung places such as Egypt, India and Dubai.

Katherine Bell

Katherine M. Bell is an Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, East Bay. She worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, mainly with The Canadian Press news agency, where she was a reporter, editor and news manager. As a reporter she focused on environmental and industrial development issues as well as on the rural economy and First Nations. Her research explores celebrity as a form of cultural authority, as an aspect of identity construction in digital life, and as a production and reflection of social categories and consumer culture.

Roberta Brown

Ren Bucholz

Ren Bucholz is an associate at Lenczner Slaght.

Ren’s diverse commercial litigation practice ranges from high tech and intellectual property disputes, to insurance and professional liability matters.

Prior to joining Lenczner Slaght, Ren clerked for the judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal. He has published academic and popular articles on intellectual property, file sharing and electronic voting. He also represented a non-governmental organization at the World Intellectual Property Organization – a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Geneva – and at various technology standards organizations around the globe.

While at law school, Ren was a senior editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and was named a Dean’s Fellow in civil procedure, property law and criminal law. He was also awarded a Google Policy Fellowship, which enabled him to complete his MA thesis on competition law, technology standards and intellectual property.

Kiera Chion

Hanna Cho

Hanna Cho is currently Curator of Engagement & Dialogue at the Museum of Vancouver. She obtained her (h)BA in history and communications from the University of Ottawa, and holds an MA in Communication & Culture from York University (2004-2006).

Hanna is a social researcher with an academic background in the cultural studies of technology, cities, and policy analysis. She joined the MOV in 2010 from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where she was a research fellow and lead for APFC’s first national youth engagement strategy from 2007-2010. In 2013, Hanna was the curatorial lead on the development and launch of “The Visible City: Vancouver’s Neon Stories” which is one of North America’s first mobile “street museum” apps featuring location-based augmented reality and interactive walking tours.

Hanna is also co-founder of the community wireless networking group, Wireless Toronto, Vancouver-based new media/culture speaker and salon series “Fresh Media”, contributing researcher to the non-profit policy and research collective, Media Action Média, sits on the Board of Directors for the British Columbia Museums Association, and in 2006 was visiting research fellow and Korean Government Scholar resident at the Hallym University’s Institute for Communication Arts & Technology (ICAT). An excerpt of Cho’s MA thesis, “Towards Place-Peer Community and Civic Bandwidth: A Case Study In Community Wireless Networking” can be read in the special Issue (Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens and the Public Interest) issue of The Journal of Community Informatics [Vol 4, No 1; 2008].

Thesis: Untethering Social Capital: A case study in Wireless Community NetworkingSupervisor: Middleton, CatherineCommittee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara

Heather Davis

Michael DeJong

MRP: Objectivity and the Kyoto Protocol: A Case Study of Newspaper FramingSupervisor: Fletcher, FredCommittee Member / Second Reader: Allen, Gene

Monika Delmos

Project: Museums of Cultural Waste: The Garage Sale as a Locus of the circulation of Cultural artifactsSupervisor: Feldman, SethCommittee Member / Second Reader: Innes, Christopher

Anne Doelman

Project: Looking Back to What Exactly? Understanding the Implications of Working with 15mm Home Movies in a Digital Non-Linear Editing EnvironmentSupervisor: Elder, BruceCommittee Member / Second Reader: Wickens, Renate

Greg Dube

Thesis: The Street is Disgusting and Beautiful: The Meanings, Materials and Politics of AutomobilitySupervisor: Slopek, EdCommittee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine

Karen Fernandes

John Fernandez

After graduating in 2014 with a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Communication & Culture, John was employed at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) working as a policy analyst in the Radio Policy and Applications division.

MRP: Exploring Interactivity: Expanding the Performance Right for Sound Recordings in American Copyright Law.

Supervisor: Dr. Rosemary J. Coombe

Second Reader: Dr. Tokunbo Ojo

Charles Finley

MRP: The Palimpsest of Discourse: A Framework for Comparitive Urban Theory and PractiseSupervisor: Tschofen, MoniqueCommittee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine

Matthew Greaves

Marc Griebel

Susan Grossman

MRP: The Role of media in sustaining capitalist hegemony: A critical reviewSupervisor: Mooers, Collin & Mazepa, P. (2nd Sup.)Committee Member / Second Reader:

Richard Grunberg

Bio: Richard Grunberg – In the production industry for the past thirty years, he has studied Engineering, has a BA in Radio and Television Arts, MA in Communication Culture, and has worked professionally in still photography (two years as former Prime Minister Trudeau’s Liberal Party photographer), and as a Director of Photography and Technical Producer in the television industry. Rick was Vice President and founding member of one of Canada’s most successful television facility and production companies of its time. He was later hired as a Technical Director and D.O.P. (Director of Photography) at TVOntario, working on such shows as Polka Dot Door and Polka Dot Shorts, Join In, and shows in the freelance market, such as Shining Time Station, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight…and many more. Rick has given numerous lectures on advanced camera and lighting techniques throughout North America, and was instrumental in the funding, design and construction of Canada’s first University based High Definition television training facility. He was also involved in some of the first High Definition tests and shoots almost 25 years ago. Rick has been a full time faculty member in the Radio and Television Arts department at Ryerson for 15 years, while always maintaining a busy freelance shooting schedule. Rick’s research interests are now directed in the areas of HD bidirectional broadcast over IP , winning the prestigious ORION award, and travelling the world building the Global Campus collaborative student network. Rick has also been featured on a number of CBC shows with his studies in 3D Production and it’s Physiological parameters, with a key role in the design and implementation and Director of Ryerson’s Digital Cinema and Advanced Visualization Lab.

Jovana Jankovic

Jovana is a critic, cultural worker, and student of media aesthetics. She is currently employed at the National Film Board. In 2011, she was an Associate Junior Fellow at the International College for Research in Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy in Weimar, Germany.

The Media Politics of Privacy and Memory: A Study of Surveillance Video in Contemporary Narrative Cinema.

Sharmeen Khan

Grant Kien

Grant Kien is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at the California State University East Bay. After receiving his MA in Communication and Culture, Grant completed his PhD in Communication and Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Caroline Kolombos

Martha Ladley

Project: [Tentative] Research and Design Methods for Mobile Platforms: a Walk in the ParkSupervisor: Slopek, EdCommittee Member / Second Reader: Durlak, Jerome

Ganaele Langlois

Thesis: Online Journalism and the Public Sphere: A Discourse Analsis of three Newspaper Web SitesSupervisor: Fletcher, FredCommittee Member / Second Reader: Smith, Joyce; Allen, Gene

Yee-Man Janice Leung

Thesis: From crowdsurfing to crowdsourcing: Production, consumption, and the shifting music fan experience in a mobile, networked era.Supervisor: Crow, BarbaraCommittee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven; Elmer, Greg

Yingning Lin

MRP: The Rise of Consumer Society in ChinaSupervisor: Seaton, BethCommittee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, Donald

Ariella Linovski

Ariella Linovski currently runs her own communications consulting business, Ariella Communications. Ariella has done strategic communications planning, media relations, social media campaigns and writing for various federal government departments. These departments include Health Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Canadian Transportation Agency. She has worked on issues ranging from controlling the spread of animal diseases to improving transportation for people with disabilities.

Nationalism in Ethnically Divided Societies: The State of Israel’s National Identity during the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006, presented September 2007, School of Politics, International Studies & Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast.

Monika Marescaux

Nicole Markowich

MRP: Shifting Standards and Practice at the CRTC: Planned, Inadvertent or Accidental. The Implications for a Changing Regulatory Environment on Canadian BroadcastingSupervisor: Donald GillesCommittee Member / Second Reader: Arthur Siegel

Lucinda McDonald

Caitlin McKinney

Thesis: Making Out on the Internet: Interpreting Popular Photographs on Afterellen.comSupervisor: Driver, SusanCommittee: MacLennan, Anne; Parsons, Sarah

Jessica Mende

Thesis: From the Tongues of Good Intention: A Critical Look into the Articulated Experiences of Work and Study Abroad in Southern EnvironmentSupervisor: Alhassan, AminCommittee Member / Second Reader: Haig-Brown, Celia

Lanjuan Meng

MRP: The Phantom Public Sphere and its Problems: An Inquiry into Neoconservative Ideology and the Political Value of the Aesthetic DimensionSupervisor: Edward SlopekCommittee Member / Second Reader:

Tamara Miller

Lesley Model

MRP: Indian Myths and Legal Realities: The New Age Appropriation of Indigenous ImagerySupervisor: Coombe, RosemaryCommittee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred

Marcos Moldes

Marcos Daniel Moldes is currently a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is completing his dissertation tentatively entitled “Hijos del Norte, Padres del Sur | Children of the North, Parents of the South: Second-Generation Canadians and Belonging”

Jon Montes

After graduating with a Master of Arts (M.A.), Communication & Culture at York University, he got a job with TIFF in Toronto and just recently relocated to St. John’s where he’s on contract with the National Film Board as Associate Producer.

Grants

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC)

Graduate Development Fund Travel Grant (York U)

Canadian Research Media Consortium Small Research Grant (Canadian Media Research Consortium & the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies)

Clare O’Connor

Heather Olsen-Seabourne

Project: National Property: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Reproduction, Industrialization and Canadian Landscape PaintingSupervisor: Eichorn, KateCommittee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine

Christian Oquendo

Karol Orzechowski

Thesis: Under the Flag? Identity and Nationalism in Canadian RodeoSupervisor: Mooers, ColinCommittee: MacLennan, Anne; Evans, Barbara

Evren Ozselcuk

MRP: Realist, Surrealist, Real-ist: Exploring Three Voices of Critique Trhough the Works of Luis Bunel and Louis AlthusserSupervisor: Tschofen, MoniqueCommittee Member / Second Reader: O’Neill

Christian Oquendo

Thesis: Exploring the frontiers among communication and non communication: Exclusion, Conflict, and discursive Interactions about Maize within Mexican societySupervisor: Ruggles, MylesCommittee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David

Delmy Xiomara Peraza-Torres

MRP: Refugee Political Transnationalism in El Salvador: The Role of Local GovernmentsSupervisor: Goldring, LuinCommittee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John

Malve Petersmann

MRP: Mindy is Missing and Stephen is Home: Lost and Found Pet Posters as a Form of Micro-Communication in an Urban SpaceSupervisor: Marchessault, JanineCommittee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin

Jaigris Phillips (Hodson)

Thesis: Web 2.0 A Case Study: New Information Technology and Public ReasonSupervisor: Drache, DanielCommittee Member / Second Reader: Crichlow, Warren

Marcelina Piotrowski

Thesis: Matter as Movement: Exploring the Role of Movement in Henri Bergson and Bruno LatourSupervisor: Janine, MarchessaultCommittee Member / Second Reader: Elmer, Greg

Robert Price

Thesis: The Taxpayer: A Simmelian Analysis of the Taxpayer as a Social Type and an Analysis of Taxpayer DiscourseSupervisor: Blum, AlanCommittee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John; Burke, Mike

Susan Quail

Sahar Rahmani

MRP: The Conscious Revolution of Mind/Body Integration Through the Re-Feminization of CultureSupervisor: Elder, BruceCommittee Member / Second Reader: Small, Holly

Christina Raimondo

MRP: The New AdvertainmentSupervisor: Elmer, GregCommittee Member / Second Reader: Ruggles, Myles

Teresa Ritter

Thesis: Aboriginal Peoples and Broadband Technology: An analysis of the gap between community expectations and the iniatives funded by Canadian GovernmentsSupervisor: Middleton, CatherineCommittee Member / Second Reader: Cohnstaedt, Joy; Krogh, Kari

Alex Rogalski

Rebecca Rouse

Rebecca Rouse is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY. After her MA, she completed her PhD in Digital Media at the The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.

“Teamwork in the Performing Arts.”
William B. Rouse, Rebecca Rouse. (2004)
Proceedings of the IEEE: Special Issue on Engineering & Music 92 (4) p.606-615.

“Understanding and Supporting Teams in the Performing Arts.”
William B. Rouse, Rebecca Rouse. (2001)
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Human Supervision and Control in Engineering and Music p. 233-237.

Project: And You Thought I Was Powdering My Nose: Women’s Washroom GraffitiSupervisor: Barndt, DebCommittee Member / Second Reader: Snyder, Don

Elliot Silverstein

MRP: Media Melee: The Emergence of the Internet as a Political Vehicle in Canadian Election CampaignsSupervisor: Fletcher, FredCommittee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John

Jennifer Sipos

Project: The Right Road: Finding the Freedom to Create An Exploration of the Prison Metaphor in Select Autobiographical Accounts of the Creative ProcessSupervisor: Elder, BruceCommittee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred

Christopher Smith

Project: Publicity: Notes on the Politics of Public Space in the Postmodern CityscapeSupervisor: Marchessault, JanineCommittee Member / Second Reader: Dowler, Kevin

Daniel Wiley

Arlene Williams

Thesis: The Political Economy of Communication and the Policy Communities Approach: Connecting Critical View of the Media to Post-Pluralist Analyses fo the Policy ProcessSupervisor: Salter, LioraCommittee Member / Second Reader: Dowler, Kevin; Johns, Carolyn

Lesley Williams

As the Manager of Aboriginal Affairs and Resource Development for the PDAC, Lesley leads the development of research, advocacy and projects to support increasing Aboriginal participation in the mineral industry and improving relationships between companies and communities. In her role, Lesley has focused on collaborating with the mineral sector, Aboriginal communities and leaders, and various levels of government to actively promote greater understanding and co-operation between Aboriginal communities and the mineral industry in Canada. Lesley represents the PDAC at national conferences and events, volunteers on a number of advisory committees throughout the sector. She also manages the Aboriginal Program at the PDAC annual Convention that is renowned for providing a platform for discussion on fostering mutually cooperative, respectful and successful relationships between Aboriginal communities and the mineral industry.

Since joining the PDAC in 2009, Lesley has held the positions of Program Assistant and Program Manager and has been involved in a number of the PDAC program areas including Aboriginal Affairs, Corporate Social Responsibility, Geoscience, Lands and Regulations and Government Relations.

Lesley holds an M.A. in Communications and Culture with a specialization in politics and policy, and a B.A. in Communications and English.

Thesis: Manoeuvring the Peacemaking Myth: Canadian New Media Reports in the Canadian Forces in AfghanistanSupervisor: Mazepa, PatriciaCommittee: Whitworth, Sandra

Deborah Wilson

Mark Woods

Project: Outrageously Political: “The Use of Queer Theory and Camp in the Subversion of Heterosexist Action Adventure Film”Supervisor: Denisoff, DennisCommittee Member / Second Reader: Longfellow, Brenda

Kristin Wozniak

Thesis: Perceiving Democracy: Exploring the Democratic and Community Development Potential of Student Newspapers on University CampusesSupervisor: Fletcher, FredCommittee Member / Second Reader: Cukier, Wendy

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